King's Hawaiian Rolls

Hi all-

Last week, I wanted to practice making some rolls for Thanksgiving dinner. I wanted to duplicate King's Hawaiian Rolls, so I searched the site. Most of the pertinent results suggested that Hawaiian rolls were simply a straight Portuguese Sweet bread or a variation of that bread. I've previously made Portuguese Sweet Bread (from the Beard On Bread book) and I knew that that wasn't what I had in mind. So...I turned to our friend Google and made another search.

I came up with 2 very different recipes. The first (from the 350degreeoven.com) was a pineapple and tangzhong mixture that sounded intriguing, and the second (from recipelink.com) was a very simple white bread dough with the peculiar addition of yellow cake mix mixed into the dough. Since the second recipe was the easiest to accomplish, I made that recipe. And it sounded like something corporate America would do to make a 'different' product rather easily.

Due to head/neck cancer, I'm unable to swallow anything right now, so I'm unable to make my own determination as to whether or not this is what I was looking for. But, the first thing out of my brother's mouth after eating one was, "These taste just like those Hawaiian rolls that you buy." That's what my goal was, so I felt pretty successful.